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...Dubai is a very small place," says Joseph Wan, the group chief executive of Harvey Nichols, "but it's the safe haven of the whole region, the playground of the Middle East, an attractive, exclusive market with all this novelty." Indeed, mall shopping is the No. 1 leisure activity here for both the wealthy local Emirati people and the white-collar expats who outnumber them. After all, there's not much else to do in this heat?except build more malls, as South Asian migrant workers do in round-the-clock shifts...
...selling out the $40 million palace he built for Avenue Q. To draw those crowds, even a Broadway hit like Hairspray has to make compromises: an abridged, intermission-free version opened last month at Luxor, and the casino expects it to re-energize the 12-year-old pyramidal playground...
...choice for your name is better than the one you already have. Of course, it gets complicated because in most cases the name you already have wasn’t your choice either. Further, so many people use nicknaming for evil, and not for good, the ultimate form of playground teasing, it’s easy to see why the nicknamed might get disgruntled.But if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, why do we care? Apparently our identities lie inside, not by the name itself. To an extent, it’s true. We often hope...
...Harvard students, there are few greater delights than hearing our own voices, and section is the great playground for this pastime...
...Cambridge crime rates have decreased overall over the past several years, with only three domestic violence deaths in a 10-year period. He attributed the decrease to CPD’s strict control over “quality of life issues,” including keeping down noise in playground areas at night and strengthening restrictions on public drinking, red light violations, and littering. “We take it very seriously on some of the smaller crimes, because those crimes themselves lead to a lot of [larger] problems,” Pasquarello said. “There are certain...